Facebook Apps Must Now Ask Users for More Specific Permissions

This sort of system never seems to work in practice.<p>Very quickly you get to a point where every app asks for so many permissions it does not need. You end up just "clicking through" the installation without much thought.<p>Either developers are lazy or just want to be on the safe side.<p>Every Android app that I have downloaded requests network access (Even simple games do!), contacts access and tons of other capabilities. I suspect most users just learn to ignore these requests and blindly install the application...

Good move, but not enough. Though you're now more informed, you still don't have much control over using an app other than deciding whether use it or not. Its not like you can say "this app shouldn't be needing access to my friends birthdays, let me disable that".

Quite the 180, Facebook. My data belongs to me is a core belief now?

Thank Goa. Finally they came up with this.